A doctor, who prescribed benzodiazepines to more than a quarter of the patients in his practice, has been found guilty of poor professional performance.

The teenager who was the most violent in the attack on a French visitor in Cork City was later seen on CCTV giving a youth a celebratory high five and yesterday he was sentenced to two years in detention.

A Cork man who had been placed under arrest subsequently used his head to escape from a Garda patrol car.

“This is a set-up from start to finish,” a judge said as he dismissed a compensation case taken by six people arising out of alleged injuries from a car crash in Macroom in 2009.

A man jumped out of a car and snatched an 84-year-old woman’s shopping trolley.

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A woman in her late 40s is fighting for her life in hospital after suffering serious burns when she fell asleep smoking a cigarette.

Doctors in Cork and Kerry have been warned in recent weeks to be “on guard” for new patients seeking sedatives and tranquillisers.